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TWeaK

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  • Catholic Church To Excommunicate Priests for Following New US State Law

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  • though I think it’s unlikely to directly have the intended effect and will probably just prevent people from confessing instead.

    That's the thing, if you violate the confidentiality of confessionals then people simply won't confess, and then you lose the avenue for a priest to try and convince someone to address their behaviour. Maybe that's not very effective, but it's more effective than not having it.

    In line with your assessment of the article's agenda, I have to question how much of an issue this even is. Like, the Catholic church has a long history with child abuse, but wasn't that primarily about Priests abusing children in their parish, and the church protecting its priests? This is an accusation that Catholics themselves are a bunch of child molesters, which is not something I've seen any evidence in support of.

  • Catholic Church To Excommunicate Priests for Following New US State Law

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  • That's not quite accurate. Therapists are required to break confidentiality if they believe there is an ongoing risk to others, not because someone tells them of child abuse they committed in the past. In that sense, a confessional would probably be the same - you don't confess to things that haven't happened yet. You're more likely to express ongoing risk in therapy than in confession.

    If the confessor indicated that they were going to continue doing things, that's when a confession should become reportable, if we're want the law to be secular and equitable.

  • Columbia University deploys NYPD against pro-Palestinian library protest, 78 arrested

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  • Peaceful does not mean lawful. You can peacefully break the law.

    The law is not always right - that is why it has the facility to be changed - and when laws are wrong it is a good citizen's duty to break them, as that is the first step to changing them.

  • Someone from my university took down my website

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  • The logs were deleted, sounds like there isn't any proof left.

  • Someone from my university took down my website

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  • a) The logs were deleted, so there isn't much evidence left. b) We don't even know if this is a university project and not just a side project.

  • Can Europe wean itself off US credit card firms?

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  • The EU does already have them under some control. They restrict MC/VISA transaction fees to like 0.3% - literally the day Brexit happened the fees went up to 1.5%. However that was all before covid, no idea what fees are everywhere now.

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  • I don't think it's you being paranoid, however at the same time your husband is perhaps more on the front line of things, so should have a better idea.

    I would say that as a journeyman lineman he'll be pretty decently qualified and probably wouldn't have as hard a time finding work abroad. It might be a tough sell with lower salaries on paper, but you often find that the standard of living improves and makes it more than worthwhile.

  • In Klingon culture your lover might tear you apart

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  • Apparently this was from Threadless. They don't have this anymore, but they do have a KISS one:

  • Easter "Eggs"

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  • The koala thing is slightly different, at birth they can't digest eucalyptus leaves. The necessary gut bacteria is passed down from mother to child through coprophagy.

    Bunnies and guinea pigs just eat their poop to ensure complete digestion.

  • Easter "Eggs"

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  • Fun fact: at birth koalas can't actually digest eucalyptus leaves on their own. They eat their mum's faeces to gain the necessary gut bacteria.

  • Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive

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  • I mean it was a precarious case that was on the verge of being acceptable to most people, but legally was clearly not. Scanning books and providing a single digital copy was legally grey, but everyone looked the other way. Providing extra copies during a pandemic was kind, but allowing it to go to court and not settling (and then doubling down with appeals, all of which has to be funded by donations that could have been spent elsewhere) ended up with a judge ruling that no one can scan books and publish a single copy without an explicit license from the publisher. So that grey area is now black and white.

    I can't help but resent them for this, given that the main part of the organisation - the actual Internet Archive - is so important and they've put its survial at risk with their side hussle. Some of the blame (perhaps even a majority?) should also go to the lawyers that represented IA.

  • Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive

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  • The IA is already marked for death and has been ever since they doubled down after blatantly infringing copyright with scanned books during the pandemic. IRC the full penalties of that haven't been felt yet, and I think they are likely to bankrupt the ogranisation.

    What IA needs to do is spin off the actual Internet Archive element to another organisation, outside of the US like you say, such that an essential part of the internet isn't taken down with the organisation.

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    Trains have gender neutral bathrooms

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  • Could be? It absolutely is off topic.

  • Trump says he’s punishing foreign countries. He’s mostly punishing Americans | CNN Business

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  • People are already boycotting American things on their own, it doesn't make sense to punish them. If anything, that's more likely to backfire and make that government look bad towards its people.

    The only way tariffs work is if the revenue collected from them is used to do something for the country setting them. America isn't doing that, America is being stupid. Trump is going to rinse America dry and all the tariff money American taxpayers paid will be gone (probably by the government investing in a classic and obvious crypto scam meme coin).

    Other countries shouldn't be stupid like America, they should only apply tariffs with a plan to re-invest the revenue back into their country. If they even need to apply tariffs at all; I'd argue not.

  • Trump says he’s punishing foreign countries. He’s mostly punishing Americans | CNN Business

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  • The point I'm making is that retaliatory tariffs don't make Americans suffer, let alone the American government. They maybe mean some American businesses make a little bit less money, but that's it. What tariffs really do is make that country's people suffer.

    The American government is already making Americans suffer with American tariffs. It makes no sense for other countries to make their own people suffer with their own tariffs.

    Ultimately, tariffs are a tax; they take money from the people and put it in the government's pocket. I wouldn't want my governmet taking more of my money, not at least without some plan for what it's going to be spent on (and those plans being in my or the country's interest).

    If America wants to tax Americans for buying overseas then that's their problem, and it doesn't mean that Europe or other countries should start taxing their own citizens.

  • French industry leaders back Macron’s call to freeze US investments

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  • I just want to add something right here:

    Retirement was pushed to the age of 64 under his name

    Macron did this unilaterally by twisting an emergency constitutional power so that he could bypass a vote from the Assembly/Senate.

  • Trump says he’s punishing foreign countries. He’s mostly punishing Americans | CNN Business

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  • This is why it's ridiculous that media in other countries are criticising their politicians for not responding harshly to Trump's tariffs with tariffs of their own.

    When America applies tariffs on imports it's Americans who pay them. It affects foreign business slightly, in the form of reduced sales, but the real victims are Americans. When other countries apply tariffs, the main victims are their citizens.

    The correct response to someone punching themselves in the face is not to punch yourself in the face.

  • Artists Anonymous - Portuguese Geese

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  • Maybe it isn't, but I just find it hard to believe the obsession with Merrivius on r/comics is completely natural.

  • Artists Anonymous - Portuguese Geese

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